I’ve never been able to talk on my cell phone when indoors here or at our last apartment. There’s never a cell phone signal strong enough to power any lengthy conversations. I don’t know why either. But then again I’m not a cell phone junky so it doesn’t bother me all that much. I don’t even know where my phone is right now to be totally honest. But anyway, the site I linked sells kits that can help with that, even in apartments! Really neat though a little too expensive for my tastes and then there’s the fact that they don’t work with Nextel phones anyway – which is common. I can never find services that work with my phone.
My son is standing here explaining why he needs to go to the playground and I’m about ready to die from the cuteness of it. It sounds like he really NEEDS to go, badly. I wish I could just jump up and run out at the drop of a hat like he thinks I can, but I can’t. For one, I am in my pj’s still. And two, I have some things to take care of this morning/afternoon and I don’t get it done I will just go crazy with obsessive compulsiveness. Total mommy guilt going on here! I don’t know how some parents stay on the go all day, everyday and still manage to get things done at home. I’m here all of the time and I still feel behind .. all of the time. ugh.
Maybe Daddy will pop in early from work today .. hopefully. They have been missing him a lot lately even though he’s only gone from 5am to around 4pm.
Anyway, I’m off. Lots to do – bill paying, dinner plan formulating, massive toy cleanup, and of course showering at some point. Is it sad that showering is at the bottom of my list? I might even try to put makeup on today .. woohoo.
Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Michael E. Koch
29 years old from State College, Pennsylvania
East Coast-based SEAL team
February 4, 2008
“There are only approximately 2,500 SEALs in the Navy and they really are a brotherhood,” said Naval Special Warfare spokesman Lt. David Luckett. “This is another unfortunate reminder of the risks and sacrifices these amazing warriors and their families make on a daily basis.”
Koch leaves behind his parents and a fiancee. He enlisted in July 1998 and entered SEAL training in January 1999, according to The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk. He received the Bronze Star, Joint Service Commendation Medal and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
Navy SEAL Michael E. Koch died Feb. 4 after being wounded by small-arms fire during combat operations in Iraq alongside fellow SEAL Nathan Hardy, who was profiled last week.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.
I can’t believe how easy this potty training thing is!! I seriously dreaded the thought of dealing with this stage and that dread started early on. We’re talking from the time I got that positive result on the home pregnancy test … lol but now I am thinking this may not be so bad. We’ve had almost no accidents in days. She’s very into it and I just cannot get over how she made the decision to go for it on her own. She has always been a very bright little girl so I shouldn’t be surprised, but I can’t help but be shocked. We’re even doing pull ups now and if those stay nice and dry for a bit we may switch to actual panties soon. I would do it before but I am not a big fan of laundry so I’m not chancing it just yet. But still, how cool is that?!
February 27th, 2008
4:44 pm
Uncategorized
I need to change this jewelry in my face, and soon. I know the piercer told me to wait at least 4 weeks but I think I may have to break down and go against that. I’ve already ordered a new labret, made of Bio-Plast (?) material that I am hoping will work well. With it being flexible you can actually cut it to the length you need and it’s supposed to be pretty safe for teeth and gums as well. THAT is the issue I am having. I can’t open my mouth too wide when I am eating or else I end up with my teeth getting caught on the labret. ouch!!! The swelling has gone down so I have an excess of length on that sucker and it’s not pretty right now. I don’t even want to go out right now for fear of people staring at me, wondering what the heck I would do that to myself for. heh
I know it will be pretty. It will be. I just have to wait it out.. and wait for that darn mail carrier to deliver the new jewelry.
I received an email last week from someone wanting me to remove a sponsored post from last year that someone from their company had bought. He also had the marbles to threaten his “legal dept” on me if I didn’t remove it because it was hurting his company’s business, which is just ridiculous. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that point. It’s not a negative post AT ALL and if a mommy blog with maybe 60 page views per day is going to hurt your business, then it probably has other issues as well. I love my blog, but it isn’t well known and doesn’t get a ton of traffic. NOBODY clicked on the link from that post and from what I can see from my stats, I didn’t get any hits from that post in search engines until this guy started stalking my blog daily, to see if I had removed the link. Sad for the person who paid for the post, but certainly not a company destroyer, you know?
Now of course I could just remove it and be done with it. The post isn’t vital to my blog’s content by any means. It doesn’t bring anyone in from Google or anywhere else. It doesn’t help my traffic. But it all comes down to what is right in this situation and I don’t feel that you can threaten someone to remove their own content – especially if it’s not even close to being defamatory. You know .. free speech and all of that?! What happened to that?
So yeah, this is just a notice to anyone who may have purchased a post in the past. If you change your mind and you would like it removed, be a human being. Send me a note asking me to do so – be polite! Don’t puff up your chest and throw around titles and legal departments. That doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. I don’t appreciate that sort of behavior. But I will take notice if you treat me with a little bit of respect and you may get what you want in the end.
ETA: I did remove the post – but only because I’m feeling especially sweet today, maybe it’s the Lysol fumes? So if you happen to be here, stalking me, checking (you know who you are, I see you), find something else to do. Surely vice presidents of “big” companies have more to do than harass a stay at home mom.
I spent my morning cleaning the second bathroom .. oh boy, that was fun! When we moved in we decided that it would be the hubby’s bathroom. He would use it and maintain it and then I would take care of mine .. and everything else around here. It’s been great knowing my booty was the only one using my bathroom. BUT .. the man doesn’t get what CLEAN really is. I spent an hour in there cleaning baseboards, mopping, sweeping up stray cat litter (litter box is there as well) and dusting everything. ugh. I am going to try my best to not bitch about it when he gets home, but wow .. that is going to be hard. heh
But anyway, after all was done I whipped out my trusty Lysol can and started spraying all of the hard surfaces down, my last step of sterilization. lol Aubree came in while I was doing so and congratulated me ..
“Good job, mommy! You’re destroying odors and killing viruses!”
Seriously .. she’s 3 1/2 going on 40 some days. Between the information she gets from the tv and of course the education online, like all kids these days, she’s just nutty. But I love that child! I think we may have to stop using the tv as background noise during the day. yikes.
So yeah, that has been the extent of my excitement today. Boooooring. I’m going to take a small break and then get the kids some lunch, print out a few recipes and start roasting garlic and prepping for dinner tonight. I’m going to make pot roast and garlic mashed potatoes.
–
By the way – thanks for the comments on my piercing post! I don’t get a ton of comments so that made me all giddy .. like the big dork that I am 
LONG day. Lots to do and I didn’t even finish my list. Tomorrow will be much of the same I imagine.
Then the kids were total maniacs. The only fantastic part of the day with them was the oldest going potty like she’s supposed to – but it was massive and plugged the toilet. WTH?! She’s 3!! So, yeah, that wasn’t fun to deal with. I’m not a big fan of plumbing duty. The hubby is supposed to get all of the “shitty” jobs. heh
I did get to talk to my bestest girlfriend on the phone during all of the chaos with the kids and that was nice. We’re going about a month in between calls now that we both have two kiddos each. I found out that he has the same piercing as I do – and now I feel like a big fat copycat. Though I still love it. 
We bought groceries which were VERY needed and I managed to get two weeks worth of food for only $127! That is pretty great considering I normally spend at least $50 more than that in one trip. I bought a ton of meat, lots of veggies and very little quick fix items. The kids weren’t even all that bad to deal with thanks to the fighter jet kiddy carts that they have. I love those!! The kids sit right in front of me, at my level, instead of in a “car” down on the front. I can wrangle them back in if they try and escape and it’s much easier to steer. I end up running old ladies over and toppling produce displays when I try to use the other kiddy carts. It’s a mess!
Now? I’m waiting on bed. One more kid to go. I hope she wears down soon – I’m tired. 
I need to bathe, brush and get my ass to bed.
We were in Norfolk earlier this evening shopping and since we were right by the piercing studio that I prefer, I did this.
Yikes, I know. I was going to wait, I tried, I wasn’t sure I was going to do it. But then I suddenly grew a pair and .. voila! It was a moment of insanity. The hubby sat in the car with the kids while I ran in, like I was going to the 7-11 for a pop or something. ha! Thankfully my favorite piercer was working and it wasn’t busy so I was in and out with no issues. It didn’t even hurt .. well, it did. I mean, it’s a needle, you know? But it wasn’t what I had built it up to be in my mind. No panties soiled, not a tear shed.
And oh my gosh. If I never have to go over that way again, I’d be happy. I forgot how much the traffic annoyed the hell out of me. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Speed, speed, speed!!! GAH!
I’ve also come to the conclusion that the next vehicle we have will be a mini van with a sound proof partition between the back and front. I love my kids but they drive me frickin insane in the car. We haven’t been out as a family, driving for more than 5 minutes, in about 3 weeks I imagine. I now remember why.
Now I think I’ll take my happy ass (and my fat lip) to bed. The hubby has duty (WAHOO!) so I am spending my first night alone in over 3 years!! It’s going to be blissful having that bed all to myself (without having to start an argument right before bed to get it).
I spent all day yesterday catching up on housework and then finished what I hadn’t done then today. I worked my ass off and it felt good to have everything sterile again, just the way I like it. Now my entire weekend should be pretty free to do .. uh .. well the same old stuff probably as I’m boring like that. But at least it won’t involve cleaning products! The hubby has duty all night Saturday, or technically Sunday (midnight till 8am), so I doubt we’ll get to do anything after that. He’ll be sleeping Sunday away. Boring.
I had plans to maybe go out later. To do what? I don’t know. I promised the girl kiddo that I would buy her a new DVD for being such a big girl. I’m just so proud of her. I may have to make that trip across the street to Walmart so I can pick that up. She requested “Underdog”. Good times .. good times.
Oh, and while I am rambling …
Thanks to the great comments on this post, I REALLY want to go and get my new piercing, but I don’t know when. I hate going alone so I may have to stalk someone and see if she was serious about being blogger piercing buddies. heh I just hope the hubby isn’t too upset about it when I do finally do it. He doesn’t seem to care, but he did ask me “WHY?” .. why do I need a hole in my face? Why? Like I can explain it. He’s not into that sort of thing so he wouldn’t get it. Just like I don’t get why he insists on wearing the fugliest t-shirts in his closet from every port call around the globe. Oh you should see the rocking multi-colored shirt he brought home from Malaysia. It reminds me of an 80′s hair band t-shirt. Scary. I tried to hide it in the donation pile we hauled off to the Salvation Army but somehow it managed to find it’s way home.
